Leakage-Resilient Data Transmission Protocol With Multi-Receiver for Internet of Things
Yanwei Zhou, Zirui Qiao, Bo Yang +2 more
The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming lives, making daily tasks more convenient and efficient than ever before. However, the true potential of IoT can only be realized if its nodes interact with robust security, ensuring that sensitive data and personal information remain protected. While many data transmission protocols have been proposed in recent years, most fail to deliver on their security promises in real-world scenarios. Adversaries can exploit vulnerabilities through sophisticated leakage attacks such as side channel attacks or cold boot attacks to compromise encryption keys and undermine system integrity. Without advanced, resilient protocols, the promise of IoT is put at serious risk. In addition, the corresponding protocols deployed in IoT should enjoy high computational efficiency, because the mobile terminals have weak computing power. Also, from the viewpoint of actual application, the proposed data transmission protocol should have wider universality and can be used in multiple scenarios of IoT. Therefore, to further address the above problems, we propose a general construction of a leakage-resilient data transmission protocol with multi-receiver from an identity-based hash proof system (IB-HPS) and identity-based signature (IBS) scheme. For our proposal, the unforgeability, anonymity, and confidentiality can be proved based on the security of the underlying cryptography tools. Compared with the existing protocols, our proposal has better performance, such as dynamic anonymity, leakage resilience, traceability, etc. Furthermore, to guarantee the highest levels of security and efficiency, we have developed a novel IB-HPS construction that offers continuous leakage resilience and perfect key updates. Alongside this, our new leakage-resilient IBS scheme delivers the computational efficiency essential for practical deployment in IoT networks, ensuring that security enhancements do not come at the expense of performance. Both performance analysis and security analysis show that our data transmission protocol is secure, efficient, and highly practical.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing•Nov 14, 2025•0 citations